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Leading scientists at the CERN research centre in Switzerland have now developed a way of trapping anti-matter - and the University of Liverpool team has created a way that may enable experts to analyse it.

This could be a major breakthrough because, if scientists are able to compare anti-matter to matter, any differences could unravel the secrets of anti-matter.

The Globe of Science and Innovation at The European Organization for Nuclear Research commonly know as CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. (Image: Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)

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One University of Liverpool scientist working on the project, Petteri Pusa, explained anti-matter is effectively a mirror image of its corresponding matter.

And he said: “There should be equal matter and anti-matter. The quest is to find where the anti-matter is. Now we have a tool that can very precisely compare matter and anti-matter. This is the first time we have ever been able to do it and it may - or may not - give us an answer.”